Principal Project Engineer

Arpatech; Medina; On-site; SAR 431,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy solutions provider is seeking a Technical Lead to design and deliver control systems for utility customers. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience in automation, excellent customer support skills, and proficiency in electrical utility control systems. This role offers a competitive salary of $115,100 - $143,900 and comprehensive benefits including paid time off and medical insurance.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Paid time off

Charitable giveback day

Qualifications

• Strong technical background in automation and computers with at least 8 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with electrical utility control systems or utility operations.
• Experience in software programming and scripting.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver control systems for energy sector customers.
• Evaluate client specifications and define project requirements.
• Provide customer support and sales support for power systems applications.

Skills

Electrical Engineering

Control Systems

Automation

Customer Support

Problem-Solving

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

SCADA

Python

UNIX

Linux

Windows

Job description

Overview

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming hurdles, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration through career development programs, community service projects, and social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The Role In this role, you will design and deliver DGM's control systems and provide ongoing customer support to ensure reliable performance and world-class customer satisfaction. The successful applicant will contribute to project delivery excellence in support of utility customers in the energy generation, transmission and distribution industries.

Your Impact

• Project Technical Lead directly working with external customers delivering projects.
• Design, plan, integrate, test and commission hardware and software requirements on customer systems.
• Evaluate contract specifications and define project requirements through customer communication and communicate the requirements to other departments as necessary.
• Provide networking and system/application design.
• Perform hardware, software and system installation, integration, and testing for projects.
• Customize system, hardware and network configuration based on customer requirements.
• Provide customer support and assistance per contract maintenance and warranty.
• Provide technical sales support of state-of-the-art power systems applications for real-time control systems, including sales presentations and product demonstrations.
• Assist in creating training materials and project documentation as needed.

What You\'ll Need

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, Systems Engineering or related field.
• Strong technical background in automation and computers with at least 8 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with electrical utility control systems (SCADA, EMS, GMS, DMS, OMS, DERMS) or experience working in utility operations.
• Experience in one or more of the following: power systems, electric utility operations/dispatch, real-time control systems, client/server applications, network communications, UNIX / Linux / Windows operating systems.
• Experience in software programming and scripting (Python, C / C++).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Mongo, Cassandra).
• Experience with JSON, XML.
• Experience with common utility protocols (ICCP, DNP, MultiSpeak).
• Experience with OSI Monarch control systems.

Soft Skills Required

• Excellent organization, interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Strong commitment to providing superior customer service.
• Ability to work on several projects in parallel in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability and flexibility to travel to domestic and international customer sites.

Salary and Benefits

The salary range for this role is $115,100.00 - $143,900.00. This range represents what we in good faith believe is the range possible for base compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range based on several factors. This range may be modified in the future. This role is also eligible for bonus or variable incentive pay. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, charitable giveback day, medical/dental/vision insurance, and retirement benefits to eligible employees.